Playing with Markdown

STAT 540: Seminar 3

Shannon Erdelyi

22-01-2014

I always use Sweave to create documents with R because I like pdf files. I have been putting off learning markdown, even though Jenny always says:

Markdown is not that hard to learn!

I can think of a few reasons why markdown is better than sweave:

• It's web friendly
• I can still write nice LaTeX equations
  • \( \alpha=2 \)
  • \( \frac{a}{b} \)
• It's readable

Let's try some r code.

a <- 1
b <- 2
(f <- a/b)

## [1] 0.5

I can also plot stuff.

This is my simple plot

plot(a, b)

My only complaint

I don't like all of the files created in my working directory when I knit2html. Can I get rid of these somehow?